The water issue is not a showstopper; rather a complication....

The water issue is not a showstopper; rather a complication. There is a possibility to extract off the Coolgardie Norseman pipeline, to augment the losses in the medium term. It has the benefit of maybe washing off the excess sodium chloride from the last row of spray bars on the sink screen, or else using this fresh water in the jig after the DMS and recycling this water to the process water tank/s. I bet they have hopelessly undersized this tank. It has to hold at least 2 hours residence time to smooth out irregular flows from the bore pumps and the pits.

It is probably another unwelcome $500 000 spend for 55 kms of pipework but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Snookered by distance! The Chinese consortium owning the cattle station might be generous enough to sell a little bit of their surface fresh water from the 48 dams on the station but each of their cows require 20 litres per day drinking water